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Jun 1, 1976 · The House on Marshland, the second bundle dating from 1975 of the Nobel laureate 2020 is a marked improvement versus Firstborn: Poems. The first part of the bundle gave me the feeling of being dropped in a dark forest, with Hansel and Gretel, during Christmas time.
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Aug 11, 2020 · The house on marshland by Glück, Louise, 1943-Publication date 1975 Publisher New York : Ecco Press Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor
Other articles where The House on Marshland is discussed: Louise Glück: …its outlook is equally grim, The House on Marshland (1975) shows a greater mastery of voice. There, as in her later volumes, Glück’s personae included historic and mythic figures such as Gretel and Joan of Arc. Her adoption of different perspectives became increasingly imaginative; for example, in “The Sick Child
Aug 11, 2021 · After The House on Marshland, I tried to wean myself from conspicuous syntactical quirks and a recurring vocabulary—what begins as vision degenerates into mannerism.” In the thirty-five poems in this collection, divided into two sections — “All Hallows” and “The Apple Trees — there are indeed fewer fragments, though few of them are complete in a single sentence.
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Glück’s poems in books such as Firstborn, The House on Marshland, The Garden (Antaeus Editions, 1976), Descending Figure (The Ecco Press, 1980), The Triumph of Achilles (The Ecco Press, 1985), Ararat (The Ecco Press, 1990), and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Wild Iris (The Ecco Press, 1992) invite readers to explore their deepest, most intimate feelings. Her ability to write poetry many ...
Louise Elisabeth Glück ( / ɡlɪk / GLIK; [ 1][ 2] April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal". [ 3] Her other awards include the Pulitzer Prize, National ...
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Since The House on Marshland, Glück has published a memorable sequence. The Garden (Antaeus, 1976), prolonging her fixed glance and conclusive style into a linked series of poems.
